Queer as a two-bob watch

Welby Ings

pp. 131-146

in: A.-Chr. Engels-Schwarzpaul, Michael A. Peters (eds), Of other thoughts: non-traditional ways to the doctorate, Rotterdam, SensePublishers, 2013

Abstract

I grew up in Pukeatua. My father was a shearing contractor who worked in the sheep sheds in the back of Arohena and Ngaroma. These are places you have probably never heard of. They are small and remote. To say my origins are obscure is an understatement bordering on hyperbole. I remember as a boy hearing the men talking one day about a ram that had cost a farmer a lot of money.